The results from MATHCOUNTS, UNM-PNM, and AMC competitions are in! MATHCOUNTS Competing against some of the strongest math students in the state, Albuquerque Academy’s middle school team earned second place overall in the state MATHCOUNTS competition held on Saturday, March 21, 2015. Elias Garcia ’19 placed third overall and will travel to Boston as one of […]

Earliler this year, 21 Academy students received Gold Medals in the 2015 Regional Scholastic Art & Writing competition (see earlier story). Those award-winning entries then moved on to review in the national competition, along with thousands of entries from throughout the United Stated and beyond. Seven pieces submitted by students throughout New Mexico received national […]

Albuquerque Academy’s Symphonic Band made a whirlwind trip to Anaheim, California to participate in a special soundtrack recording workshop at Disneyland on March 13-15. Students had the opportunity to sight-read and record music from Disney films in a film-scoring studio. The workshop is designed to illustrate the critical role each member of a concert band […]

Congratulations to all members of the team for a strong showing at the final competitions of the academic year! Read season highlights below. ***** New Mexico National Qualifying Tournament, March 12-14 Seventeen Academy students participated in the three-day competition with the following eight qualifying for the national tournament in June:Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking Ria Mazumdar ’15 […]

Porcelain vessels by visual arts faculty member Liz Fritzsche will be on display at Matrix Fine Art (3812 Central Ave SE) from March 6 to March 28. The exhibition, Subtle Imprints, will open with a reception on Friday, March 6 from 5-8 p.m. Two woman artists — Marilyn Dillard and Elizabeth Fritzsche — join forces for the exhibition. Dillard paints bold, abstract representations of […]

This fall, many Albuquerque Academy performing arts students auditioned and were selected for All-State. This year’s All-State Music Festival will take place January 7-10, 2015 at the University of New Mexico. Selection for All-State is based on a prepared audition piece along with on-the-spot sight-reading. All participants receive a cumulative score, and are then placed in an […]

Karen Temple Beamish, science department faculty member and director of the new Desert Oasis Teaching Garden (DOT) and Academy alum Terra Reed ’05 have received a GreenWorks! community action and service learning grant from Project Learning Tree. The grant of $1,000 will be used to set up a rainwater harvesting system for the DOT Garden. Through this grant, […]

Sixth-grader Connor Spears won first place in the Academy spelling bee last week, competing against 18 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students to win the title. The winning word was “billabong.” Zane Peterson ’20 earned a second place finish. The first and second place winners were declared in nine rounds. It took another twelve rounds to determine alternate Zachary […]

As he starts his second three-year term on the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) board, Andrew Watson, Head of School at Albuquerque Academy, has been named chair of the Environment Committee. NAIS is a nonprofit membership association providing services to more than 1,700 schools and associations of schools in the U.S. and abroad. The […]

A message from Head of School Andrew Watson If you have attended an Academy football game lately, you have probably noticed that participation in the program has decreased to numbers that raise concern, particularly now that all of our athletic teams have been placed in 5A by NMAA’s new classification model. We petitioned against the […]